Great question J Can you see the way you widened your perspective on your own question after asking it? That's kind of it (for me) - looking at the wider 'environment' curiously, discerningly, and honestly. In totality no thing is right, or wrong. There is right for me in this moment - in the next ...

I think I get too many paradoxes stuck in my head. Yet it seems like its nothing more than mental content, and the mind attempting to understand the big picture. The mind won't rest until you do understand the big picture...or at least mine didnt. You need to understand what the person you appear t...

You don't have to imagine it JTL. You can't imagine it. But you are living it. You literally are it. It's the ground of everything you've experienced through the filter of space/time/matter. Your very nature is beyond time. Gently pay attention to your present moment experience in the body and this...

How do I make decisions without being caught up into judgment or overthinking? Sometimes we can overthink our decisions, like choosing a major to study, what kind of job to look for, or where to go on Vacation. Other times, a choice involves changing undesirable situations, like a bad job, an abusiv...

I think it can be hard for me to disidentify with thoughts and ideas about Spacetime. In the Ego consciousness, it seems like it is ultimately the reality. It seems like it is impossible to imagine anything not bound by spacetime. For me, its easy to imagine other alternatives, like different laws o...

I think it may have been Meister Eckhart who stated much of Spirituality is about unlearning. Frankly I could not agree more. It seems like we can too easily get stuck in needing to label, explain, or analyze everything to death. This reminded me of an episode of the Twilight Zone known as "Little G...

I have been thinking it maybe better to ask about enlightenment in relation to what it is not. It seems like the mind wants to define enlightenment as either A) A higher level of knowledge, or B) Nothingness. Yet these seem to be mere mental constructs.

The ego is a judgement machine that lives by making comparisons ...but of itself it has no life. Everyone is ultimately divine creations of Source. Forgiveness is to see past or overlook this dense ego covering or shrouding of the pure light that exists in everything and in others. Thus to see it i...

Thanks, Jack, for the encouragement. :-) I derive so much pleasure from the worlds of thought and form that it often prevents me from experiencing the joy of pure being. (For me, the latter can only happen, directly at least, when the everyday pleasure-driven mind is quiet.) I don't want to give up...

I find that trying to be egoless just creates an ego itself, something like a Sadhu, or a monastic. Plus, sensual experience, thoughts, memories/time and emotions are part of our consciousness, in my opinion. However, I think its also just as unconscious to obsess and identify with Egolessness. But ...

It seems like you try to understand everything by using your mind. Your true self, our true self is beyond anything we can imagine. Death of the ego is the birth of your actual self, but what you think as the death of an ego might also be something else. I also have had some suspicions about those ...

I have noticed a sense of being stuck in a lack of consciousness, where it seems like there is no reality outside of what can be intellectually grasped. This is not the first time this has happened. This happened three times before, due to being stuck at a level of unconsciousness, with each time ha...

I dont know if its just coincidences, but I have been having some creepy experiences that resemble death. 1) I have seen 5 parked ambulances over the course of 6 weeks, 2) In church 2 songs were about death, 3) I had some jellybeans(bean-boozled) that had flavors that tasted like death, and haunted ...

I could not help but wonder if in modern Western Culture, the fear of Death is grounded in Egoism. I think that our current medical system is a testimony that has a death denying and death defying attitude. Yet, in reality, I have not been overly impressed with the results of modern medicine, as com...

I dont know if its just me, but conformity is a major turnoff for me. This includes things like groupthink, following popular trends, uniformity, lack of diversity, or giving duty higher priority than happiness. Yet people who are not concerned about conformity interest me more. I cannot help but th...